[dpdk-announce] release candidate 21.11-rc1

[dpdk-announce] release candidate 21.11-rc1

[Thomas Monjalon]

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v21.11-rc1

There are 1171 new patches in this snapshot, big as expected.

Release notes:
	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.html

Highlights of 21.11-rc1:
* General
	- more than 512 MSI-X interrupts
	- hugetlbfs subdirectories
	- mempool flag for non-IO usages
	- device class for DMA accelerators
	- DMA drivers for Intel DSA and IOAT
* Networking
	- MTU handling rework
	- get all MAC addresses of a port
	- RSS based on L3/L4 checksum fields
	- flow match on L2TPv2 and PPP
	- flow flex parser for custom header
	- control delivery of HW Rx metadata
	- transfer flows API rework
	- shared Rx queue
	- Windows support of Intel e1000, ixgbe and iavf
	- testpmd multi-process
	- pcapng library and dumpcap tool
* API/ABI
	- API namespace improvements (mempool, mbuf, ethdev)
	- API internals hidden (intr, ethdev, security, cryptodev, eventdev, cmdline)
	- flags check for future ABI compatibility (memzone, mbuf, mempool)

Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
DPDK 21.11-rc2 is expected in two weeks or less.

Thank you everyone